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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

Plugs and Cars

Google founder Sergey Brin drove one of the 2001 Th!nk And with Google's clout, they could make the cars a reality GM Getting Lots of PHEV Ink; Rolls Out 100 H2 FCVs – Huh? The participants in Project Driveway will have to be located in Westchester, NY, Washington DC or Orange County, CA, places with hydrogen fueling stations.

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SAE Hybrid Standards Committee: Works In Progress For 2009

Green Car Congress

However, J1711 will retain a “utility factor” component to determine the relative fuel economy of a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicle in charge-depleting mode. The utility factor uses driving statistics from a 2001 DOT national household travel survey, and is itself defined by SAE standard J2841, which was released on 27 March.

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